Remote management system and method for service objects

• US 9,003,011 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Justen, Pascal, Stevens, Christoph, Liekens, Werner Mario, Coppens, Jan, Bouchat, Christele, Acke, Willem Jozef Amaat
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US12/170,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20090019104A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,462 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/220, 709/221
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/548 Object oriented; Remote method invocation [RMI] non-remote method invocation G06F9/449
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0266 using meta-data, objects or commands for formatting management information, e.g. using eXtensible markup language [XML]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration

Abstract

A remote management system is able to remotely manage service objects (311) in a bundle (301). The remote management system thereto contains a management platform (302) in a customer device where the bundle (301) is installed, a remote management server (304) somewhere in the network, and a management agent (303) able to expose the service object representation (312) of the service objects (311) via a remote management protocol (307) to the remote management server (304). The remote management system in addition is foreseen with a proxy bundle (305) with a generic interface to populate and export a generic service object representation (351) of the service objects (311) towards the management agent (303).

Claims

1. A remote management system for remote management of a bundle having at least one service object with corresponding service object representation, said remote management system comprising:

a management platform in a customer device where said bundle is installed;

a management agent on the management platform in the customer device; and

a remote management server, said management agent being able to expose said service object representation via a remote management protocol to said remote management server, and wherein

said remote management system further comprises a proxy bundle with a generic service object representation interface configured to populate and export a generic service object representation of said at least one service object towards said management agent on the management platform in the customer device, said generic service object representation being a software service module that is independent of the remote management protocol, wherein said proxy bundle is configured to monitor and notify parameter value changes of the at least one service object to said management agent via the generic service object representation interface.

2. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said proxy bundle comprises a Java Application Programming Interface configured to populate said generic service object representation (351) from said service object representation.

3. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said generic service object representation interface is configured to map on a remote management protocol interface.

4. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said generic service object representation interface is incorporated in said management agent.

5. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said management system further comprises translation means for translating said generic service object representation to a representation that is understandable by said remote management server, said translation means residing in between said proxy bundle and said remote management server.

6. A management system according to claim 5, wherein said translation means comprise an eXtensible Markup Language or XML scheme based on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations or XSLT syntax and semantics, or a dedicated application.

7. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said proxy bundle further comprises means configured to implement a service object interface not present on said management platform.

8. A management system according to claim 1, wherein said proxy bundle further comprises means adapted to troubleshoot running service objects on said management platform.